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.Dd $Mdocdate: December 17 2009 $
.Dt BGE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm bge
.Nd Broadcom BCM57xx/BCM590x 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "bge* at pci?"
.Cd "brgphy* at mii?"
.Cd "rgephy* at mii?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x,
571x, 572x, 575x, 576x, 578x, 57760, 57780 and 57788 Gigabit Ethernet
controller chips and the 590x and 57790 Fast Ethernet controller chips,
including the following:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
3Com 3c996-SX (1000baseSX)
.It
3Com 3c996B-T (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
Dell PowerEdge 1750 integrated BCM5704C NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
Dell PowerEdge 2650 integrated BCM5703 NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 250/450 LAN (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
Fujitsu PW0G8GE1U (1000baseSX)
.It
Fujitsu PW0G8GE2U (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
Fujitsu PW008GE4 (1000baseSX)
.It
Fujitsu PW008GE5 (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
Fujitsu PW008QG1U (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP ProLiant NC320T PCI-E Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP ProLiant NC320m PCI-E Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP ProLiant NC370F PCI-X Gigabit NIC (1000baseSX)
.It
HP ProLiant NC370T PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP ProLiant NC1020 PCI Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP ProLiant NC6770 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (1000baseSX)
.It
HP ProLiant NC7760 embedded PCI Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP ProLiant NC7770 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP ProLiant NC7771 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP ProLiant NC7780 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP ProLiant NC7781 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
HP ProLiant NC7782 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
IBM ThinkPad T43/T43p integrated BCM5751M NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
IBM xSeries 235 integrated BCM5703X NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
IBM xSeries 305 integrated BCM5703X NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
Netgear GA302T (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10/100/1000baseT)
.It
SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000baseSX)
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports IPv4 IP, TCP, and UDP checksum offload for receive,
IP checksum offload for transmit, VLAN tag insertion and stripping,
as well as a 256-bit multicast hash filter.
The BCM5723, BCM5754, BCM5755, BCM5761, BCM5764, BCM5784, BCM5785,
BCM5787 and BCM577x0 chips also support IPv6 receive TCP/UDP checksum
offload.
.Pp
The BCM5700, BCM5701, BCM5703 and BCM5704 chips are capable of
supporting Jumbo frames, which can be configured via the
interface MTU setting.
Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
.Xr ifconfig 8
utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo frames.
Using Jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks,
such as file transfers and data streaming.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports the following media types:
.Bl -tag -width 1000baseSX
.It Cm autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
The user can manually override
the autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate
.Xr hostname.if 5
file.
.It Cm 10baseT
Set 10Mbps operation.
The
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Ic mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
.Cm full-duplex
or
.Cm half-duplex
modes.
.It Cm 100baseTX
Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
The
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Ic mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
.Cm full-duplex
or
.Cm half-duplex
modes.
.It Cm 1000baseT
Set 1000baseT operation over twisted pair.
Both
.Cm full-duplex
and
.Cm half-dupex
modes are supported.
.It Cm 1000baseSX
Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
Both
.Cm full-duplex
and
.Cm half-duplex
modes are supported.
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports the following media options:
.Bl -tag -width full-duplex
.It Cm full-duplex
Force full duplex operation.
.It Cm half-duplex
Force half duplex operation.
.El
.Pp
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "bge%d: can't find mem space"
A fatal initialization error has occurred.
.It "bge%d: couldn't map interrupt"
A fatal initialization error has occurred.
.It "bge%d: no memory for jumbo buffer queue!"
The driver failed to allocate memory for jumbo frames during
initialization.
.It "bge%d: watchdog timeout"
The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
the network connection (cable).
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr arp 4 ,
.Xr brgphy 4 ,
.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr netintro 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr rgephy 4 ,
.Xr hostname.if 5 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver first appeared in
.Ox 3.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@windriver.com .